STAND. COM. REP. 2772

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2613

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2613 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR FAMILIES FOR RESOURCES FOR EARLY ACCESS TO LEARNING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $880,000 for the Families for Resources for Early Access to Learning Program (R.E.A.L.).

Your Committee finds that the R.E.A.L. program is established in three of seven Department of Education school districts. Establishing anchor sites within the other four school districts would create a truly statewide system that would actively support children coming to school ready to learn.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the $880,000 appropriated amount to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion;

(2) Inserting the four school districts in the appropriation section for the sake of clarity; and

(3) Making several technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2613, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2613, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair